does this mean im a bad parent

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just watched the news at lunchtime and it was saying a new study has shown that watching to much telly as a toddler can trigger autism....

could this be true or is it just another way to make us parents feel like crap cause i know i do after seeing this

Hi, Bubble. Am new to writing on MN so not sure how to direct you to it but there is a thread running on this under "in the news". I know what you mean about feeling crap. Am probably just about to cave in and put on Here comes a digger DVD - embarrassingly children know it off by heart!

Oh bollocks to it.. DS2 watches more TV than he 'should' but he is so hyperactive that the house, which he wrecks anyway, would be entirely destroyed if it weren't for Nick Junior!!

I do the best I can under challenging circs as do most parents.. and the tv helps with those which I would imagine is the case for quite a few of us mums of SN children.

I saw this article in my local paper and on the same page was another article about the Autism genome project where scientists think they have found a gene implicated in autism.

So depending which article you go with it's genetic or too much tv. Seems to me they can't have it both ways!

And I agree, would have no house (or sanity!) left if it wasn't for tv.

I tried to read the article about the genome project and got completely lost. I need someone like martianbishop or tamum to explain it in terms I can understand.

It's just another one of those blame-the-parents headlines. It was only a few weeks ago that we were being told we should be buying a dog to help our children with autism to improve.

We hardly ever have the telly on and J's still barking. Work that one out, experts!

GREAT. Another 'statistic' my mother can throw at me to imply that ds' ASD is all my fault!!
I'm surprised I've managed to raise ds the way my mother acts!
It's all bollocks. Until someone can show me proof that something causes autism, I am liable to say F*ck off to anyone that tells me otherwise.

They could probably do a study that shows eating oranges while pregnant triggers Autism. Or breathing chlorine from swimming pools.

They can knob off as far as I care, I am sure something I have done caused ds1's speech delay, but I don't know what.

This sounds like rubbish to me. None of mine would sit still long enough to watch that much TV anyway!